It’s certainly been too long since my last Found while foraging! Since I haven’t been posting as frequently as I’d like, I’ve preferred to post about scientific topics when I had a chance to post. In the meantime, I’ve let my collection of links grow…so I decided to start the week with a Found while foraging and hopefully end it with a “proper” post. Anyway, here’s what I’ve come across in the last couple of months — hopefully it’s not an overwhelming collection! As always, feel free to add more links in the comments.

My review article about crosstalk between cytokinin and other plant hormones has been published. Unfortunately, it’s not open access (Sorry — it was an invited review!), but some of you may be able to access it through your institute. I’m toying with the idea of writing a post about it.

On the same theme, George Johnson’s “Cancer Cluster or Chance” makes the point that there was no clear link between contamination and cancer in Hinkley and explains the difficulty of knowing when “hazardous” effects of an exposure are actually just random.

Earlier this year, Chuck Hagel was confirmed as the US Secretary of Defense. Have a look at this graph showing how many times he was asked about Afghanistan (the USA’s longest war) or Israel during his Senate confirmation hearing

A picture of three Palestinian children camping at a peaceful protest near Jerusalem was posted on a Facebook page entitled “We are all in favour of death to terrorists”. The resulting racist outpouring calling for them to be killed is no less sickening for having been predictable.

Alex Brown launched his new blog by writing about false friends in a post that generated plenty of discussion. You should check it out if you enjoy languages — in fact, you should probably follow Alex’s blog.

I learned quite a lot from this excellent article about lip-reading and signing by Rachel Kolb, who has been deaf since birth.

I loved Mary Roach’s TED talk “10 things you didn’t know about orgasm” so much that I bought her book, Bonk. I’m planning to post a review once I’ve read it — and then maybe buy more of her books. (Yes, OK, it’s not hard to get me to buy books. In case any publishers out there are reading this: it’s also not hard to get me to review books — just get in touch!)

Does your cat walk on your keyboard? They’ve been doing that for nearly 600 years….